Bug#391676: Fwd: r41855 - in trunk/packages/cdebconf: debian src/modules/frontend/newt
clone 391676 -1
reassign -1 partman-auto 60
retitle -1 partman-auto: uses nested progress bars, which are not supported
thanks
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:40:14AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> Is anything wrong or is it just busy at Ubuntu? You seem a lot less
> responsive than normal and I'm starting to get a bit concerned for you.
Thanks for your concern. Just busy at Ubuntu and in RL, though ...
> Anyway, I've tried to ping you a few times about #391676 and eventually
> have had to decide to revert your newt progressbar refactoring (r40585)
> to fix the regression.
> I've left the change in src/test/progress.config in because that looked
> good and basically unrelated to the refactoring.
Sorry about the delay in sorting this out. I've fixed it properly now by
making the newt frontend stop the old progress bar if you try to start a
nested one.
This is also a partman-auto bug. Nested progress bars aren't supported
by cdebconf, and it should not try to use them at present. Following the
above fix (and, indeed, with my refactoring reverted as Frans did),
cdebconf will silently do nothing and leave you at a black screen if you
stop an inner progress bar and then attempt to manipulate the outer one.
This isn't critical as long as said manipulation doesn't take too long,
but it's a UI bug.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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